Freshly fried, grilled, or baked salmon with a crispy exterior and tender interior is a culinary pleasure when it's done right. Cooking salmon perfectly can be tricky: Undercooked, and it's mushy.

Just before baking, place a baking tray with cold water or a few ice cubes into the oven to create steam. Cover the fish ...

Dry, wet, dry. Those are the essential steps in breadcrumb coating. Whether it be chicken or fish fillets, a light dredge or dusting of flour is the first step, thus the “dry” term. Next the “wet,” a ...